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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>NYAGDU Show and Tail<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Come and check out our Show and Tail event at this year’s convention. Come to the NYAGDU meeting between 12:00 and 1:00 on Friday the 17<sup>th</sup> and bring your favorite guide dog handling equipment. It can be equipment issued by any school or made by any brand, just something that you find especially helpful with working or caring for your guide. Heather, from the Rochester chapter will be bringing a custom made sports harness made by On the Go a company run by Julie Johnson, an owner trainer. Heather will of course pass around her harness, but for a small $2 donation to NYAGDU you can borrow the harness and Heather will help you to fit it correctly to your guide and you can take the harness for a 10 minute test drive while at convention. We will also have a speaker this year from the Guide Dog Foundation to speak about updates in the breeding, raising and training programs to interested guide dog handlers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Heather Bird<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Martin Niem<span style='layout-grid-mode:line'>öller<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='layout-grid-mode:line'>In our diverse society we must never fail to speak up in the face of Human Rights violations lest we be the next targets of such violations.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>